Telangana had alleged that AP had made an unauthorised drawl of over 4 tmc of water from the NSP tail-pond in April without the prior consent of the Krishna River Management Board (KRMB).
Both the states had responded positively with an emphatic 'yes' on the issue of clearing the dues owed to the boards. But their assurances die not yield funds.
The NSP tail pond has a storage capacity of 7 tmc. It is a multipurpose reservoir 21 km downstream of the main project. It is meant for storing the water released from the project for power generation.
The AP Re-organization Act, 2014, mandates that the successor states -Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, provide necessary funds to KRMB for its functioning besides the staff salaries and allowances.
The three-member committee of the River Management Board, which met here, discussed the drinking water needs of both states and the utilisation of 80 tmc of water allotted to them in October.
This could have been utilised for filling as many as 19 reservoirs under the project. He also wondered why the State representatives had abstained from the three-member committee meeting of the KRMB two days ago.
In addition to the regular maintenance works, the NDSA team that visited the project some time ago, had also identified certain shortcomings in the maintenance.
In a letter addressed to the State Engineer-in-Chief (irrigation), KRMB made it clear that no decision can be taken by it as no consensus was arrived on the issue
The State government was supplying adequate power to meet the energy demand and no official power cuts would be imposed by the government, said Revanth Reddy
The KRMB also rejected its plea to consider 18.70 tmc of water (saved by the State from its previous water year share) as carryover part of water in the Nagarajuna Sagar Project
BRS launched a determined onslaught against the Congress government for its failure to safeguard State's jurisdiction of the Nagarjuna Sagar Project and nine of the 15 outlets of joint projects in Krishna basin that were under its control so far
Telangana Assembly passed a unanimous resolution resolving that common projects would not be handed over to Krishna River Management Board unless the conditions put forth by the State government were fulfilled
The Congress-led UPA government too had done injustice to people of Telangana by not considering the rightful share of the State in the AP Reorganisation Act-2014, BJP member Maheshwar Reddy said
